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...Federal Aviation Administration, pressed by pilots to crack down on the gadgets, issued an advisory late last week that left it up to the airlines to set their own rules. Delta has already expanded its list of forbidden devices to include video playback machines and CD players. With the arrival of new "fly-by-wire" aircraft, which are heavily computerized and even more vulnerable to interference, passengers may have to go back to reading paperbacks and watching the in-flight movie...
...that had been 20 years ago and a quarter-billion kilometers away. The playback came to an end; sound, vision, the scent of unknown flowers and the gentle touch of the wind slowly faded. Suddenly, he was back in this cabin aboard the orbital tug Goliath, commanding the 100-person team of Operation ATLAS the most critical mission in the history of space exploration. Toby, and the stepmothers and stepfathers of his extended family, remained behind on a distant world which Singh could never revisit. Decades in space -- and neglect of the mandatory zero-G exercises -- had so weakened...
...work. "It's really miraculous when you think about it," he says, taking a shiny black record from its jacket. "These little shellac disks are like time capsules." He marvels at the amount of sonic information that was originally captured on the old records -- far more than the primitive playback techniques of the time were able to reproduce...
...124MA VIDEO MONITOR: Located in locked room on Widener Level D: Black and white, Unipotential picture tube for sharp, detailed pictures; 12" diagonal screen; horizontal resolution of 700 lines; Short constant circuitry for stable playback of recording...
...build up, with only about 175 titles available. But as Hirayama Toshikatsu of Panasonic's audio division points out, "The majority of users want to create their own tapes with their own selection of music." Sony spokesman Tsutomu Imai agrees. "Software was important because the CD player was a playback- only machine," he says. "It had to have prerecorded music to succeed. But since DAT is for recording, software is not that important...